I was recently overcome with an insatiable urge to upgrade, as well as tinker. While my wife had her head turned, I took the opportunity to order a new 700D with a windowed side panel. This will be a fairly straight forward build, no flashy paint or laser cutouts, just a new giant case and some new core components. I really liked the looks of a 700D that Feizy put together awhile back, and will be loosely following it. Anyways...

Here she is fresh out of the box. The main plan is to remove the lower HDD cage and put the XSPC in its place. The triple rad will be mounted in the top of the case, and the Swifty 35x in the drive bays, with a fill port straight above it.

Removing the lower HDD bay

All gone

The bottom rad
I've decided to install it fittings forward, as opposed to routing my tubing through the back of the case. If I don't like it, I'll just swap it out.A very tight fit, I had to remove a fitting so it could pivot up.Nothing special to mount it, it fits so well I just slid some foam under it to add some friction, and I'm good to go.

Drilling out the fill port

The top rad

The pump
I had a bit of a time with the pump. Since I wanted the fill port above the 5.25 bays, I had to move the optical drive to the lowest bay. This, however, left me without a platform for the pump, I didn't want to just stick it to the top of of the DVD drive, so I found an old CD drive out in the garage and chopped it up.

Basic Plumbing
I'm starting to think that I may replace the pump platform for a dual bay res sometime in the future, and I'm not entirely sure if I want to keep the tubing up front instead of hiding it.

Now I just have to cut the back panel to allow airflow for the bottom rad and order my CPU and motherboard. Until next time, tap 'er light!

Well, I tackled some late night, last minute plumbing before the bulk of my components get here tomorrow. I've always wanted a fill port and a drain spout. The fill port was already taken care of, but I decided to take my bottom rad apart, which sucked, to facilitate a drain spout. I made it out of parts I had lying around, so it's not pretty, but it will make draining the loop much easier. The poly fitting and unmatched clamps will be mostly hidden.

The worst part is that I live on a dirt road, so the couple of weeks this case has been sitting around has gotten it pretty dusty.

I'm not sure I like the silver 90 fitting, so I think it will get replaced sometime down the line.